The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
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STATE OFFICIALS. '
(iovcrnoi S. Pennoyer
Secretary of State 1. W. McBride
Treasurer:-.- Phillip MetscUan
BupL of Public Instruction E. IS. MeElroy
(J. N. Dolph
enators ...y jj H MitcheU
ConKretwman...: H. Hermann
State Printer Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge C. N. Thorabury
Sherllf I. L Cates
clerk J. B. Crossen
Treasurer Geo. Rueh
., . , IH' A. Leavens
.ominisl,nt.r J Frank Kincaid
Assessor . . .John E. Barnett
Surveyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Hhellev
Coroner William Michell
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches. "
SE W WELL YOUR WHEA TSA CKS.
A well known local wheat buyer sug
gests' that farmers this year ought to
take particular pains to have their wheat
eacks sewed in the best possible manner.
It is expected lhat a great deal of Wasco
county wheat will be forwarded to Portr
laud by boat atid when the sacks are not
well sewed there is 15 ablo to be a good
leal of waste.
"WORTHY OF SPECIAL
ERATION."
CONS II-
The regular meeting of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce was held Mon
day evening and a partial report of the
committee appointed to investigate the
proposition of the Columbia Railway &
Navigation company to open the Colum
bia river to navigation was submitted to
the meeting. An extension of time was
gi anted the committee to finish their
work and a full report is expected to be
submitted to the next regular meeting in
September. Meanwhile the committee
informed the meeting that their "atten
tion had been called to a practical route
for a portage on the Oregon side of the
river," that the committee had gone
over the proposed line in company with
R. E. llarbersham and Douglas W. Tay
lor, civil engineers of the city of Port
land." The committee statedthat "the
Oregon line was worthy of 6pecial con
sideration" and recommended that it be
referred to a special committee or to
themselves for investigation.. Thus the
gentlemen who went over the proposed
route between The Dalles and Sherman
county last Sunday have fulfilled our ex
pectations and brought the matter favor
ably before the Chamber of Commerce.
As they had not been authorized to in
vestigate the Oregon road, but merely
came here in a private capacity, at the
request of the directors of The Dalles,
Dufur & Silkstone road, they have done
all we could expect and we shall watch
further deveiopments with great interest.
PROTECTION RUN TO SEED.
The exigencies of political partisan
ship must be very pressing when it is
found necessary to condemn the super
intendent of the Bureau of Immigration
because he has decided that certain
Welch tin-plate workers may be brought
into this country without violating the
contract labor law. We have no opin
ion to offer as to the legality of the su
perintendent's decision, but we do think
it is in harmony with the dictates of
-common sense. With plants establishd
and material on hand for the manufac
ture of tin-plate, skilled labor is needed
in an industry entirely new to the
country. If the neceseary skilled labor
were already here, the case would be
entirely different, but it is not here and
manufacturers cannot reasonably be
asked to put their plants in charge of
men who know nothing of the business,
A Washington dispatch of the 10th inst,
informs us that President Xiedringhaus,
of the St. Louis stamping Company, re
plying to Secretary Foster's recent letter
relating to the employment of foreign
skilled labor for the tin-plate industry,
simply claims that for the successful
operation'of this industry, it is neces
sary to have a number of skilled work
men, fresh from the business, as con
ducted in Europe today. "The foreign
labor needed," he says, , "will not
uunount to ten per cent, of the whole
number of employes. This sort of help
cannot le obtained in the home market."
This is a very different thing from lay
ing dir.vn the bars for the influx of the
"pauper labor of Europe." It is the ad
mission of ten per cent, of skilled labor,
without whose presence the remaining
ninety per cent, already here, would find
no emyloyment in connection with an
industry that no man is justified'in say
ing may not eventually attain immense
proportions nnd be of great benefit to
the country. We heartily believe in
protecting the American laborer from
the pauper labor of Europe, but the pro
posal to shut out a class of skilltd labor
new to the. country is protection run to
seed. '
1.I11KI'' 8TATE NEWS.
George Waldron, the i'J-year-old sm
of William Waldron. a prominent farmer
living near Prairie City, 'was dragged to
death by a horse Tuesday, the youiig
man bei'n thrown off and his foot catch
ing in the stirrup.
John Simonis of Wolf creek, a pioneer
farmer of Baker county is dangerously
ill.
A small smelter will be erected at the
Galena mines on Middle ' fork, Grant
county. ,
George Ebell, cue of Baker county's
most prosperous farmers, states that his
grain this year will uverajre sixty bushels
to the acre.
- W. F. Noble has shipped from Baker
county since the first of the year between
13,000 and 14,000 head of sheep, leaving
something like $40,000 with .the sheep
men. The Albany woolen mills have pur
chased this season 280,000 pounds of
wool. The mills are ' running steadily
and will manufacture more than that
amount during the next year.
Rev. Father Metayer, of Albany, who
has been at the hospital at Portland for j
some time, has so far recovered from his
severe illness as to be able to go to the
Siskiyou mountains where he will re
main until he is able to resume his
ministerial duties.
F. J. Miller,, clerk of the loard of rail
road commissioners, is busily engaged in
taking care of the mass of papers which
have accumulated in that office during
the last1 five vearsi. . Previous to this
there was no system of filing the papers,
and they were scattered here- and there
without any attempt at keeping them in
order. " ,
Oscar Oliver, of'Lost Prairie Wallowa
county, aged 13, was thrown from his
hotrae and kicked b t te animal in the
face. . The lad's jaw was broken in two
places and the accident may result
fatally. Mr. Oliver lost two little girls
about a year ago by a terrible accident,
ana it seems that misfortune etui pur
sues his family.
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The Southern- Pacific is contending
with a big slide about two miles and a
half north of West fork, that keeps 100
men busy to prevent it from covering
the track. There are several acreg of
earth that are inclined to slide, and of
unknown depth. There .is not much
danger of the trains being delayed by it,
Out as 100 men is all that can be worked
at a time it is giving them somewhat of
a steady job.
During the thunder storm at 'Mon
mouth last ' Wecnesday,-a barn was
struck by lightning and destroyed.
When the rain was pouring down its
hardest a young man, named Dolmeter,
rode into the barn" on a horse, lie had
no sooner got ' inside the door than the
building was struck. The lightning
stunned him but he recovered himself in
time to get out of the way of the fire.
The horse did not get awav and was
burned with the barn.
GENERAL. l'EKSONAL MENTION.
Prince Henry of Prussia has started
for England. to visit Queen Victoria.
John A. Riley, brother of James
Whitcomb Riley, has been appointed
superintendent of the Bradstreet com
pany for the Pacific coast, with head
quarters at Los Angeles.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Packard, who
rside on a farm near New Hartford,
Iowa, are the parents of. twenty-nine
living children. The eldest is forty-nine
and the youngest is sixteen years of age.
Robert T. Baker, of New Bedford,
Mass., read the Bible through for the
first time in 1828. Since that date he
has read it ' ninety-nine times. It
usually takes him two months to read it
from beginning to end.
President Diaz is again well enough to
attend to executive business, but he
bears traces of recent suffering. His
wife wishes him to go to Europe for a
rest, but his ambition keeps him . at
home and will for some time yet.
Ex-Speaker Reed has apparently been
getting gay during his trip abroad. A
New York paper records that on his re
turn "his suit of clothes was distinct
ively American in cut, wherever it was
made, but his silk hat, with a narrow
brim, was plainly built on a British
block. He wore it on the back of his
head."
John C. Calhoun, grandson of. the
South Carolina statesman of that name,
declares that alternate generations in his
family smoked and eschewed smoking.
He. never touches a cigar himself, and
he says the great apostle of mullification
never did either; but hia father and
and great-grandfather were inveterate
smokers.
Princess Milena, wife of the reigning
prince of Montenegro, has euojected
herself to a severe surgical operatjon in
the clinic of Heidelberg. The princess is
now forty-five years old, but she has
been married thirty-one years. As
Milena Petrowna Bukotitisch in 1847
she was called the loveliest and most
beautiful woman in Europe.
' G. W. McKay, the alliance judge in
Kansas, who recently tried to overrule
the supreme court, but found it was
not practicable, came originally from
Michigan, and stu'ddied law at Ann
Arbor. He removed to Kansas for his
health, and derived so much benefit
from the change that he soon threw
himself into his new profession with en
thusiasm. t
California's Brush Fire Subdued.
San Rafael, Aug. 11. The brash fire
which started in Coleman's addition
yesterday afternoon was subdued early
this morning. About lOOtTacres of pas
ture land was burned. It required the
tffbrts of seventy men to gain control of
the tire.
United Stales Senator John H. Mitch
ell is just in receipt of a very kind invi
tation to etunip Ohio for Major McKin
1 this falL It is from 'the republican
slate executive committee nnd is feigned
by Chairman William K. Halm and
Secretarv W.S.Matthews.
Th Ancient Mines of .murium.
United States Consul . Manatt, at
Athens, in a recent report on Greek min
ing and metallurgy, enters into the his
tory of the; subject in an interesting
manner.
The mines of Laorium, now worked
for zinc, lead and iron, are, he says, the
very mines from which Themis tocles
drew the silver supply to fit out his fleet
and beat back the Persian invader at
Salamis (490-480 B. C), and so to lay the
foundations of-the Athenian hegemony.
More than this, it is thought probable
that the Phoenicians delved here before
the Greeks came, as they are known to
have done in the Island of Thasoa. .
At any rate, Thoricus was a free city
before Theseus welded the Attic bor
oughs into a single commonwealth (that
is to say, before the name of Athens ap
peared in history) and its importance
must have been due to the mines; so that
the mining industry at Lauriurn may
possibly boast an origin as - remote as
thirty centuries back, while it is again
in full blast today. ' . r
In walking through the French com
pany's great mine at Camaresa, in the
heart of the Laurium region, one tra
verses here a gallery in active exploita
tion for zinc and lead and hard by an
other worked out by the old Greeks two
or three thousand years ago.'; These an
cient works are among the- most inter
esting monuments of Hellenic civiliza
tion. .... ., ? ..
Etiquette In the Reign of Louis XIV.
The etiquette which prevailed at Ver
sailles was of the most minutely elaborate
character, and governed every movement
of the king and those about him from
the very moment he opened his august
eyes until he closed them in deep. He
was the center of the whole; it was a
drama, daily repeated the same charac
ters, the same scenes, the same derails
oppressive in its sameness, fatiguing in
its constant pressure. . . . -L-
I have neither the space nor the inclina-
i tion to dwell on all the extraordinary
ceremonial of the state dinner; the twen
ty or thirty grandees fluttering around
the king's plates and glasses; the sacra
mental utterances of the, occasion; the
gaudy procession of the retinue; the ar
rival of la nef that is, the center piece
of plate which contained, between scented
cushions, the king's napkins, and Pessai
des plats the tasting of each dish by the
gentlemen servants and officers of the
table before the king partook of it.
The same custom was observed with
the beverages. It took four persons to
serve the king with a glass of wine and
water. Well might Frederick the Great,
on hearing an account of all this tyranny
of etiquette, exclaim, that if he were king
of France his first edict would be to ap
point another king to hold court in his
place. All the Year Round.
. LomI n Goud Story.
A ri'ii-jrtsr called at the house of a
prominent city pastor who liad been
down with pneumonia. His wife an
swered the door bell.
"How i3 the doctor?"
"Much better, thank you."
A shade of disappointment mirrored
itself on the reporter's face, and he said
in a tone which showed that he felt ag
grieved, as one who had been robbed of
a sensational item: f'Well, they told me
at the office that the Rev. Mr. B was
at the point of death, and that your hus
band was very low. I've just called at
the Rev. Mr. D 'a office and I find
that he's got well and gone out. And
now yon tell me your husband is better,"
sighing. Then, rwith a hopeful look, he
asked qmckiy:
"Is there any likelihood of a relapse?"
"Mercv!" cried the frightened wife, "I
hope not!"
"Good morning, then," said the sad re
porter. St. Louis Republic.
Things Worth Knowing.
Words do seem so weak and value
less.
Fellow worker, companion, friend,
dear mother, dear wife till we meet
again adieu.
The person who fnrnishe's items for a
newspaper is always a friend to the edi
tor. Many persons hesitate about
sending items to a newspaper regarding
the movement of friends lest the editor
should think them anxious to eee their j
names in print, He will think nothing4
of the kind, bnt on the, contrary, is glad
to get such items. Many seemingly un
important notes when .printed are news
to a large number of readers.
British board of trade returns mark a
heavy decline iu texile exports to the
United Stales. On the iwbole the ex
ports are only about one-half what they
were at this time last year. It is evi
dent that our country is manufacturing
more and more of the goods it consumes
and that the McKinley tariff is contrib
uting to this result.
Frank Lee, of the Klickitat Leader,
has purchased of O. P. Mason, the
Northwest Pacific Farmer, and will as
sume charge about September first.
Three other parties will be associated
with Mr.! Lee, and the company will
publish the paper in the interest of the
granges and grangers of the northwest.
They have the endorsement of the state
grange of Washington, and have been
assured a flattering patronage. Dis
patch. In 18G0 the total number of sheep in
the territory composing today the states
of Idaho, Wyoming, Texas, Oregon,
California, Mod tana, and Colorado, and
the territories of Arizona, New . Mexico
and Utah, was 2,774,965, This was 12
per cent, of the total number of sheep in
the country, which was 22,471,000. To
day there are in those states and terri
tories 22,437,931 sheep, being ove- 50
per cent, of the total for the United
States, and equal ' to the sum of the
sheep thirty-one years ago.
SI O.OO Seward.
Lost, a diantond scarf pin the above
reward will be paid bv returning to C.
E. Haight.
Money to Loan. -
100 to $500 to loan on short time. ,
Batakd & Co.
The Columbia river - must be opened,'
so that the. river . navigation can come
into competition with the rail
roads reaching this city and the Sound
ported This must be accomplished, else
the advantageous location of Portland
at the confluence of the two great rivers
of the Pacific northwest, and seemingly
designed by nature as the place for the
luture great city ol.the coast, will weigh
hut lightly in the balance. But what
ever plan adopted to secure this, care
should be taken that the power or influ
ence of any of the great railroad corpor
tions be completely barred from taking a
hand in its organization. Portland
World.
SOCIETIES.
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SSEMBLY NO. 4827, K. OF L. Meets in K.
t. of P. hall on first and" third &unduvs at 3
o'clock p. m.
TTTASCO LODGE
NO. 15. A. F. & A. M. Vivta
T f
P. N .
first and third Monday of each month at 7
DALLES ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. .
Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesdnv
of each month at 7 P. M.
MODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.
Mt. Hood Camp No. 59, Meets Tuesday even
ing of each week in I. O. p. F. Hall, at 7:30"r. M. .
COLUMBIA LODGE, NO. 5, I. O. O. F. Meets
every Friday evening at 7:i o'clock, in Odd
Fellows hall, Second street, between Federal and
Washington. Sojourning brothers are welcome.
H. A. Ruxv, Sec' y , it. G. Clostkb, N. G.
I FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. ., K. of P. Meets
1 every Monday evening- at 7:80 o'clock, in
k-hanno's building, corner of Court and Second
streets. Sojourning members are cordially in-'ited.-
' Gko. T. Thompson,: 'j :
1). W. V ausk, Soc'y a . C. C. ' ''
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN"' tKMPEREXCE
UNION -will meet every Friday afternoon
it 2 o'clock at the reading room. A 11 are invited.
TEMPLE LODGE NO. 3, A. O. II. W. Meets
at K. of P. Hall, Comer Second nnd Court
Streets, Thursday evenings at ":..
John Fiiaoon,
W. S Mykiw, Financier. . M. W.
THE CHURCHES.
1MKST BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. O. D. Tat
lob. Pastor. Services every Sabbath at 11
1. M. and 7:-S0 P. u. . Sabbath School at 12 X.
("raver meeting every Thursday evening at 7
3'ciock. . . .
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Rev. W. C.
Kj Ccetis, Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11
. M. and 7 r. M. Sunday School after morning
trvice. Strangers cordially invited. Seats free.
r E. CHURCH Rev. II. Brown, Pustor.
I Serviees every Sundny morning and even
ing. Sunday chool at lJa o'eloek M. A cordial
nvitation is extended by brith pastor and people
J. M. HUNTINGTON CO
Abstracters,
Heal Estate and
Insurance Agents.
Abstracts of. and Information Concern
ing Land Titles on Short Notice.
Land for Sale and Houses to Rent
- Parties Looking for Homes in
COUNTRY OR CITY,
OR IN SEARCH OF
Bu0iqe00 Locations,
Should Call on or Write to us.
Agents for a Full Line of
LeaJis Fire Insurance Companies,
And Will Write Insurance for
on all
, DTISIB A "RT.j"Fj ZEBISIECS
Correspondenee Solicited. All Letters
Promptly Answered. Call on or
., Address, . .
J. M u HUNTINGTON & CO.
Opera House Block, The Dalles, Or-
The Dalles
Gigar : Faetory,
FIBST. STEEET.
FACTORY NO. 105.
CT A"TG of the Be8t Brands
VXVXJr.X;) manufactured, and
orders from all parts of the country filled
on the shortest notice.
The reputation of THE DALLES CI
GAR has become firmly established, and
the demand for the home manufactured
article is increasing every day.
A. ULRICH Su SON.
Health is Wealth !
Dr. E. C. West's Nervc akb Brain Trkat- .
mist, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizzi
ness, Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia,
Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use
of alcohol or tobacco. Wakefulness, Mental De
pression, Softening of the Brain, resulting in in
sanity and leading to misery, decay and death.
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power
in either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat
orrhoea caused by over exertion of the bruin, self
abuse or over indulgence. Each box contains
one month's treatment. $1.00 a box, or six boxes
for (5.00, sent by mail prepaid oil receipt of price.
YVK GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
To cure auv case. With each order received by
us for six boxes, accompanied by fo.00, we will
send the purchaser our written guarantee to re
fund the money if the treatment does not effect
a cure. Guarantees issued only by ,
BLAKELEV & HOUGHTON,
t 1'rescrlpt Ion Druggists.
17ft Second St. The Dalles, Or.
$20 REWARD.
WIIL BE i-Aiu FOR ANY IXTOBM ATIOS
leading to the conviction of partiescutting
" e rpos or in any way interfering with the
wir - poles, or lamps of Th Electric Light
Co. . v ' H. GLENN.
.Manager
I Mrpvt. I I 3RAIN )
'rK mm! fmw
! ' DEALER. IN
ran
J J X UiUl
HEADQUARTERS FOR POTATOES.
Cash Paid for Eggs and Chickens! AH Goods Delivered Free and Promptly
TERMS STRICTLY CKSH.
Cor. Second & Union Sts.,
The Dalles Mercantile Co.,
Successors to BROOKS BKERS, Dealers in ' .
General Merchandise, : ; :
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc.
Groceries, Hardware,
; Provisions, Flour, Bacon,
HAY, GRAIN AND PRO'DUCE
Of all Kinds at Lowest Market Rates. . ..
Free Delivery to Boat and Curs and all parts of the City.
390 and 394 Second Street
NEW FIRM!
foscoe 8t
-DEALKRS IN-
CHOICE 7 STAPLE 7 AND V FANCY V GROCERIES,
Canned Goods, Preserves, Pickles, Etc.
Country Produce Bought. -and Sold.
Goods delivered Free to aity part of the City.
Masonic Block, Corner Third and
E. Jacobsen & Go.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
R00KSELLERS AND. STATIONERS.
Pianos and Organs
Sold on EASY INSTALLMENTS.
Notions, Toys,
Fancy Goods and Musical
ments of all Kinds.
IV,X Orders Filled Promptly.
162 SECOND STKEET,
Phil Willig,
124 UNION ST., THE DALLES, OR.
Keeps on band a full line of
MEN'S AND YOUTH'S
Ready - Made Clothing.
Pants and Suits
MADE TO ORDER
On Reasonable Terms.
Call and see my Goods before '
ourchasing elsewhere.
Chas. Stnblingy
PBOPK1KTOK OF THK
QEITW,
New .Vogt Block, Second St
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL-
Liquor v Dealer,
MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT
C. E. BiYARD (10.,
Heal Estate,
Insuranee,
-
and Loan
AGENCY.
Operra House Bloek,3d St.
- FLOORING MILL TO LEASE.
' v
THE OLD DALLES MILL AND WATER
. Company's i'lour Mill will be leased to re
sponsible parties. For information apply to the
W ATER COMMISSIONERS,
. The Dalles, Oregon..
rai aoi Fir.
- . NEW STORE'
Gibons,
Court Streets, The Dalies, Oregon.
Instra-
THE DALLES, OREGON.
JAMES WHITE,
Has Opened a
Ijianoli Counter,
In Connection With his Fruit fc-tand
and Will Serve
Hot (Mee, Ham Sandwich, Pigs' Feet,
and Fresh Oysters.
Convenient to the Passe-nger
Depot.
On Second St., near corner ot Madison.
Also a
Branch Bakery, California
Orange Cider, and the
- .. Best Apple Cider.
If you want a good lunch, give me avail.
. Open all Night -
Steam Ferry.
nA ETfnilC i8 now running a steam
. U. tUHflO Ferry between Hood
Kiver. and White Salmon. - Charges
reasonable. R. O. Evans, Prop.
A NEW
ft -1 i i n i 1 1
mi raus
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IN ,;
Furniture and Carpets:
We have added to our buainess a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected with
the Undertakers-' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly. .
Remember our place on Second street,
next to Moody's bank.
ESTRAY. NOTICE.
A RED COW WITH WHITE 8POTS, SWAL
low fork In each ear but no brand, Is in ray
pasture on Mill creek. The owner can have her
by paying for pasturage and advertising.
W. BIRGFELD.
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